Perpetual calendar



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W. WEST PERPETUAL CALENDAR Filed May 9, 1922 M/ef Patented Ang. 7, 1923.

. srarns .osnPH W. WEST, or Bananen, ARKANSAS.

PERPETUAL CALENDAR.

Application filed May 9,

Y a' calendar which will display the-month,

day, and date, and which Vis easily and simply adjustablev foreach month or' the year.

Another object is to provide a calendar of this character Vwherein arev arranged two relatively movable sheets, one of which has sight openings through which may be seen the name of the month, together with the numbers of'days in the months, and the dates and days of each month, means being provided to be set for the iirst day of the year, which will govern the dates of the remaining months, said means being arranged to be set at the beginning of each year.

Other objects and advantages will be ap parent from the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is an elevation of a calendar made in accordance with the invention.

. Figurel 2 is an elevation of the inner sheet of the calendar, showing the arrangement r and grouping of the various elements which make up the calendar.v

Referring particularly to the accompanying drawing, 10 and 11 represent a pair of strips of material of the desired length and width, the strips being connected at their upper ends to a pair of iexible strips of suitablematerial 12. The strips 12 are engaged over the lowerhorizontal member or bar of the elongated wire loop 13, said Aloop having an eye 1e', in the center of its'upper portion or bar, for engagement on a nail, or like fastening, to support the calendar on a wall.

Printed, 0r otherwise formed on the sheet .11, and in the longitudinal center thereof, are two lines of month names, las indicated at 15, and in the outer sheet l0 there is 1922. Serial No. 559,538.

formed a longitudinal opening 16, of a width equal to the width of the double column of month names. margins of the opening 16, at distances equal Vto the distances of the month names longitudinally of the columns, are the initials or abbreviations of thev days `of the week, beginning with Sunday, at the upper end of the opening, and ending with Saturday, at the lower end. Removably en- Vgaged on one edge of the opening 16,*is a marking member 17,'whichris arranged to be placed over one oi the day initials, and the strip 10 moved longitudinally .of the strip 11, to dispose the marker 'oppositedanuarm thus indicating that the first day of January allson the day of the week indicated by the marker. Y f

In the lower portion of the outer-strip 10 there is `formed a large rectangular sight opening 18, and printed on the sheet 11, to be seen through this opening, are numbers indicating the month dates. The numbers are so arranged that when the strip 1() is moved longitudinally of the strip 11, a complete group of numbers representing thirty-one days, will appear in the opening. Each time the sheet 10 is moved the numbers line up diierently with the initials of the days of the week, which are printed along the vertical margins of this opening `18.

:in using the calendar, the marker 17 is placed at the day of the week on which the first day of the year falls, as for instance, the present year, 1922, the first day was Sunday. .After placing the marker at the Printed along the first initial at the upper end of the opening y 1G, the sheets 10 and 11 are then moved longitudinally with respect to each other, until the marker is opposite the desired month, as :for instance tine present month, April. Then, upon reference to the grouping of numbers seen through the lower opening 18, it will'be seen that there is a full complement of numbers for the month of April with the iirst of themonth falling'on Saturday.

The calendar is adaptable for perpetual use, the only change being in the moving of the marker for the first day of the year, which will be one more for leach succeeding year. in a leap year, a-iter the 'twenty-ninth that the dates will properly follow for the rest of the year.

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The sheets are preferably heavy paper of the desired texture, While the strips 12 are i formed of some cloth material, such as muslin, or the like, to permitthe same to easily slide over the bar of the loop.V Under each month'nanie is printed the number of days in that particular month, February showing twenty-eight days. Y Y Y Whatis claimed is: f Y

1.' A perpetual calendar including a strip having a. pair of' sight openings each having day symbols at its margins, Va movable indicator"removablyengaged on one edge of posed-on the second strip, with relation to i Y the month name group, that upon positioning any month name Aopposite the indicator the proper portion of the date group-Will be Vdisposed Within the said other sight opening.

Y f 2.. Arcale'ndarcomprising a pairl of relatively movable strips-ione of which has a pair of lsight openings `each having Week day symbols at its side, a support for the strips, a flexible member connecting the strips and slidable on the support, the other strip having `month names visible through one of the sight openings Vand month dates visible through the other sight openin and a marker vmovable along one side o the first sight opening for disposition over a day symbol and opposite a month name to govern the positions of the strips relatively to each other for each month of vanyyear. Y

3. A calendar comprising a. pair of vrelatively slidable stripsfone of which is formed with a pair of sight openings, Week-day symbols at the sides of each sight opening, month names on the other strip visible through one sight opening, month dates on said other strip visible 'through the other sight opening, a loop support, flexible strips connecting the corresponding ends ofthe first strips and slidable on the support, and a marker slidably engaged with thesight Vopening strip and at one'side of the month name sight opening thereof. v

v In testimony whereof, I ailix my signa-l ture, in the presence of two Witnesses.

J OSEPH W. WEST.

Witnesses: e Y n A. G. BLANKENSHIP, J M. AsHoRAFr. 

